Software Engineer III, Global Technology

What you'll do Position: Software Engineer III, Global Technology Job Location: 702 SW 8th St., Bentonville, AR 72716 Duties: Creates and delivers presentations on application solutions to diverse audiences (for example, suppliers, technical staff) by gathering required information; developing materials; and identifying recommendations. Demonstrates up-to-date expertise in Information Systems Division (ISD)-Applications Development area and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet Customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. Develops Associate capabilities by mentoring and teaching team members (for example, coding languages, scripts, documentation requirements, programming standards, DBMS technologies); assigning tasks; and reviewing and approving recommended solutions. Manages product installation upgrades (for example, Information Systems Division (ISD) application solutions, third-party products) by evaluating new application components; determining release schedules; and establishing installation timelines. Provides complex application solutions by identifying business requirements; researching potential solutions; making recommendations to meet end-user business objectives; conducting analysis and design; writing data analysis documents; creating technical design documentation; and writing detailed checklists for change control implementations. Supports Information Systems Division (ISD) applications by coordinating responses to user questions and problems; overseeing research of service level functions (for example, performance, availability, reliability); driving problem identification to root cause; coordinating resolutions, changes, and improvements; and leading and engaging war and focus room meetings. Leads efforts to increase Information Systems Division (ISD) team effectiveness by identifying and implementing best practices; utilizing work review processes (for example, code, design, technical); and improving Customer communications. Participates in team projects by following Information Systems Development Life Cycle (ISDLC) processes; leading projects; creating and approving project plans; directing development of program specifications and programs; gathering requested information; writing, testing, and debugging complex programs and scripts; implementing test scripts and procedures; testing and installing third-party software; writing instruction manuals; compiling documentation reports; and documenting application changes. Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 5 years of software engineering or related experience. Skills required: Must have experience with: Designing and implementing large scale data processing thru Mainframe technologies; Designed and engineered multiple data lakes using Pyspark, Hadoop, Kafka, Bash; Writing Hadoop Map reduce, Sqoop to build ETL pipelines; Mainframe technologies like CICS, DB2, JCL, Cobol languages; Architecture, designs and solutioning of products and platforms; Migration of legacy application to GCP Cloud Services using latest tech stacks like Pyspark, Big query, Data proc, Shell scripting; Project Management: Set up a support framework to establish support channels and different levels of escalation with On-Call set up of resources for Production Support activities; Developed applications in object-oriented programming language using Python; Designing and implementing large scall distributed apps using Hadoop and Pyspark; Writing unit test cases for the application using Pytest; Implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and SVN tools; Performing CRUD operations with RDBMS databases such as DB2; Designing and implementing ETL pipelines thru Hadoop, Hive, Oozie, Kafka, Shell Scripting and Python. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skill LI-DNP LI-DNI Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.